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B. A. BEARDSLEY.

PRESS. No. 336,545. Patented Feb..23, 1886 WITNESSES: VENTOH, r I

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UNITED I STATES PATENT OFFICE.

BAOKUS A. BEARDSLEY, OF WATERVILLE, NEW YORK.

PRESS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 336,545, dated February 23, 1886.

Application filed November 18, 1885. Serial No. 183,163.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, BAOKUS A. BEARDSLEY, of Waterville, in the Icounty of Oneida and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Presses; and Ido hereby declare that the following is a full thereon, which form part of this specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in presses; audit consists in the mechanism here inafter pointed out and claimed.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a section of my improved press. Fig. 2 is an end view of the same, showing the end boards in position. Fig. 3 is a section side View showing the mechanism for operating the press. Fig. 4c is a top view of the lever and weighted dogs. Fig. 5 is a section view of a portion of the machine, taken at line .90 m, Fig. -1.

In constructing my improved press, which is used for baling hops and other analogous articles, I provide two cross-sills, one at each end of the press. More may be used.

a represents one of the sills, each end of which is slotted at c for receiving and retaining pivoted standards a which may be moved outward for removing the bale, and are pivoted in the slotted cross-sills at c I form the two walls of my press of wood,. which are held vertical a sufficient distance apart to accommodate the article to be pressed.

a represents one of the walls. one is upon the other side.

I provide two longitudinal sills, which are placed 011 the crosssills at sufficient distance apart to receive and retain a suitable floor in the press.

b I) represent the longitudinal sills, and b the floor. Between the longitudinal sills at each end of the press I provide a pivoted ratchet-post, b centrally located at each end A similar of the press, pivoted at b and constructed to move outwardly. On the outer surface of the ratchet-posts I provide suitable ratchet-teeth, f, which are held rigidly to the posts.

The end boards of my improved press are constructed as follows: Section 0, Fig. 2, rep resents the lower section of the end board,

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which should be of the same width that the bale is required to be when pressed to its proper shape and size, or slightly short of that. This section is let into grooves o c in the pivoted standards at each end of the press, as indicated in Fig. 5. The upper section of the end boards, 0', (indicated in Figs. 1 and 2,) is preferably coustructedin one piece and fitted in grooves in the pivoted standards, and constructed to move outside of section 0 when the follower of the press is moved downward in the process of pressing the article, as indicated in Fig. 1. It is obvious that these end boards may have two or more sections, care being taken that each succeeding section overlap each other from the bottom upward, so that" they will move downward when the bale is. being pressed without producing unnecessary friction. Care should be taken to have the moving sections move in ways slightly wider or deeper than those provided for the bottom section, to prevent binding and similar trouble.

For retaining the walls of the press perpendicular, and to release the same for removingthe bale, and to compensate for wear and secure accurate adjustment, I provide a locking device consisting of a hook and staples. One end of the hook is held by eye 0 The opposite end of the hook fits staple 0* and is tightened by nuts 0 c and 0 represents the hook. By the use of this device the walls of the press can be kept at all times vertical, thereby securing less friction in the use of the press. This hook should be placed in the pivoted standards in position to allow the follower to carry the bale to the required size without coming in contact with the same. Each end is constructed alike.

I provide follower D, which fits the top of the press and is constructed to work therein.

' Across the top of this follower I provide two follower beams, D D, which are sufficient distance apart at the ends to receive the ratchet-posts between them, as indicated in Figs. 1 and 2. In the ends of the follower-beams I provide circular grooves d (1, for receiving the device for operating the press, hereinafter described.

For operating the follower and pressing the article, I provide two weighted dogs at each end of the press, pivoted in projecting ears attached to a handle or lever,and constructed to engage and work in the cogs or teeth on the ratchet-beams. E represents the handle, and e 6 represent the ears in which the weighted dogs are pivoted. e, Fig. 3, represents the outer dog, and e" the inner dog, each of which is pivoted in the ears at unequal distances from the center, whereby an eccentric is formed for Working the dogs on the teeth of the ratchet by means of the handle. Each weighted dog is provided with two catches, k k, for simultaneously engaging two cogs or teeth on the ratchet. On each of the weighted dogs is a projecting Weight, g 9, Fig. 4, which projectsinward and slightly downward, and is of sufficient size and weight to hold the dogs against the ratchets and to carry the weight beyond the center of gravity of the pivoted points of each of the dogs, thereby obviating the necessity of springs or other devices for keeping the dogs in contact with the ratchets. The dogs are pivoted in a circular head having ears, to which a handle or lever is attached, and are constructed to fit in the semicircular grooves mm on the upper surface of the projecting ends of the follower. Similar devices are used at each end of the press and operated simultaneously, and when operated the follower carries down the movable sections of the end board of the press. I am aware that dogs character described, of the ratchet-post pivoted at the bottom, the projecting ends of the follower for carrying the lever-head, two dogs, each pivoted in the lever-head off the true center, each dog having projecting weights 9 g projecting inward and downward, for holding the dogs by gravity against the teeth on the ratchetpost when the lever is operated, substantially as described.

2. The combination,in a baling-press ofthe character described, of the ends formed in 7 sections overlapping each other from the bottom section upward, each succeeding movable section constructed to overlap the preceding u section, each movable section guided in a groove in the side of the press, with ineans for holding the sides of the press in contact with the movable sections, whereby their movement and position may be controlled, substantially as described.

3. The combination,in a baling-press of the construction described, of the ends formed in sections overlapping each other from the bottom section upward, each succeeding movable section constructed to overlap the preceding section, each movablescction guided in grooves in the sides of the press, whereby the movable sections may be moved in the same direction in parallel lines.

In witness whereof I have affixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

BAOKUS A. BEARDSLEY.

lVitnesses:

EDWIN H. Brenna, G. D. F. Home. 

